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Totally opinionated. absolutely self-involved. >> so, when he invited lynn and charlie to visit him in georgia -- >> i basically told my sister not to bother to bring him. stay as long as she wanted. leave her old man at home. >> and on one of those visits, mark told lynn exactly how he felt. >> i said, how can you let someone run your life and forget about yourself? >> afterwards, he sat down and wrote many of the same things in a harshly worded letter to fred. >> i wrote that letter. i signed ...

Like everything you see on tv. you never think its going to be you. >> no, no, no, its surreal, very much so. >> what does that loss feel like? >> yeah, i cant put it into words. it was tremendous. it was awful. i immediately call mark, and im babbling on the phone. like i cant even speak. >> mark jicha is charlies uncle, lynns brother. >> after the initial shock, theres disbelief. i didnt burst into tears right away. i didnt start screaming. i was just stunned. >> lynn grew up in ohio. she was ...

Not to mention all the family money he inherited. >> they were able to afford things that none of us growing up could possibly afford. we were blue collar working class people, and we didnt know many millionaires growing up. >> he bought her things, jewelry and that sort of thing? >> well, right out of the gate they bought a very nice home in an exclusive suburb of long beach, bixby knolls. so that was a big step up. >> mark remembers flying out to see lynn after she got married. >> she was dyin...

>> to make a complete family, a desire that only intensified once charlie came along. >> she wanted her son to be the best person he could be. and would stop at nothing to make sure that he got that. >> around bixby knolls the schockners were considered a perfectly normal, if upscale, family. certainly not the kind of people who would be targeted by drug dealers. of course, members of the family had a slightly more intimate perspective. mark, for example, loved his sister but found fred a little...